Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:52:29 +0000 From: John Hawkes-Reed <hirez@libeljournal.com> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not? Message-ID: <4D23504D.8060103@libeljournal.com> In-Reply-To: <4D228F41.7040403@langille.org> References: <4D228F41.7040403@langille.org>
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On 04/01/2011 03:08, Dan Langille wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm trying to discover if ZFS under FreeBSD will automatically pull in a > hot spare if one is required. > > This raised the issue back in March 2010, and refers to a PR opened in > May 2009 > > * http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-March/007943.html > * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=134491 > > In turn, the PR refers to this March 2010 post referring to using devd > to accomplish this task. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-March/055686.html > > Does the above represent the the current state? > > I ask because I just ordered two more HDD to use as spares. Whether they > sit on the shelf or in the box is open to discussion. As far as our testing could discover, it's not automatic. I wrote some Ugly Perl that's called by devd when it spots a drive-fail event, which seemed to DTRT when simulating a failure by pulling a drive. -- JH-R
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